Hanan Issa
Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi writer, artist and the National Poet of Wales. Issa’s work spans poetry, prose, theatre, film and animation, including the award-winning collection My Body Can House Two Hearts and children’s anthology And I Hear Dragons. Issa contributed to Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts, was Hay International Fellow in 2023, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Bangor University in 2025.
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